Home, sweet home. Books about/set in Pittsburgh
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last updated June, 2026
Among Ruins (Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry)
Robert Gibb
The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates
Bruce Markusen
Pittsburgh and the Great Steel Strike of 1919
Ryan C. Brown
She Gets the Girl
Rachael Lippincott
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Frank Santoro
Each Vagabond By Name
Margo Orlando Littell
Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
Fred Rogers
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Gabriel Winant
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018
John Edgar Wideman
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America
Les Standiford
Out of This Furnace
Thomas Bell
Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon
The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker
The Schenley Experiment: A Social History of Pittsburgh’s First Public High School (Keystone Books)
Jake Oresick
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Damon Young
An American Childhood
Annie Dillard
City of Steel: How Pittsburgh Became the World's Steelmaking Capital during the Carnegie Era
Kenneth J. Kobus
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews
The Bend of the World
Jacob Bacharach
The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates
Emily, Alone (Emily Maxwell, #2)
Stewart O'Nan
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
Kevin Hazzard
Christine
Stephen King
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